NYC's top deals: British developer offloads UES townhouse for $55M

"Christian Candy, a British developer, parted with a 15,000-square-foot, renovated townhouse at 8 East 62nd Street for $55 million or about $3,700 per square foot. The buyer, represented by Accent Holdings' Michael Balanevsky, was anonymous. Candy and his wife, Emily Crompton-Candy, purchased the home in 2022 for $48 million."

"The top commercial deal to be recorded was in the Upper West Side, where three neighboring mixed-use walk ups at 202, 204 and 206 West 96th Street, traded for $22.5 million. The seller of the buildings, each one standing five stories tall, was Henson's 96th Corp., which had owned the properties since the early 1990s. The buyer in the latest transaction were companies tied to Isaac Abraham and David Hematian. Combined, the properties house 53 apartments."

"Theresa Sackler, widow of the co-owner of Purdue Pharma, which has been held responsible for the opioid epidemic, shed a co-op at 980 Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side for $14.8 million. The buyer was Darbus NY LLC. The unit, a duplex, has four bedrooms, a staff room, a spiral staircase and six and a half bathrooms."

New York City real estate activity on February 26, 2026 included 252 transactions worth $493 million. The highest residential sale was a 15,000-square-foot renovated townhouse at 8 East 62nd Street on the Upper East Side, sold by British developer Christian Candy for $55 million to an anonymous buyer represented by Accent Holdings. Candy had purchased the property in 2022 for $48 million. The top commercial transaction involved three neighboring mixed-use walk-ups on the Upper West Side at 202, 204, and 206 West 96th Street, selling for $22.5 million to buyers tied to Isaac Abraham and David Hematian. Additional notable residential sales included a $14.8 million Upper East Side co-op formerly owned by Theresa Sackler and a $14 million Brooklyn Heights townhouse.

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